People Operations Senior Specialist, Benefits

About the Role

Honor is seeking a detail-oriented, analytical, and employee-focused People Operations Senior Specialist, Benefits  to help deliver a best-in-class benefits experience. In this role, you will administer and enhance Honor’s health and welfare, retirement, wellness, and leave programs, ensuring they are competitive, compliant, cost-effective, and easy for employees to navigate.

You will serve as a trusted resource for employees, leaders, vendors, and internal partners, bringing strong operational discipline, sound judgment, and a continuous-improvement mindset to a fast-paced environment. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the employee experience while supporting Honor’s ability to attract, retain, and care for a world-class team.

About the Team

This individual contributor role is part of the Compensation and Benefits team within People Operations. The team is responsible for designing and delivering programs that support employees throughout their careers at Honor and align with the company’s broader total rewards strategy.

As the People Operations Senior Specialist, Benefits at Honor, you will:

• Administer Honor’s health and welfare, 401(k), wellness, leave of absence, and related employee benefits programs, ensuring a high-quality employee experience and reliable day-to-day operations.
• Partner with People leadership, brokers, carriers, third-party administrators, and internal stakeholders to support competitive and compliant total rewards programs.
• Lead the annual open enrollment process, including project planning, vendor coordination, employee communications, system configuration, testing, and post-enrollment reconciliation.
• Develop clear, engaging benefits communications and educational resources that help employees understand and maximize their benefits.
• Facilitate benefits orientation for new hires and provide timely, thoughtful support to employees who become newly benefits-eligible or experience qualifying life events.
• Serve as an escalation point for complex employee benefits questions, using sound judgment to balance employee needs with company policies and plan requirements.
• Partner closely with Payroll, HRIS, Finance, and vendors to ensure accurate deductions, eligibility files, enrollments, invoices, and reconciliations.
• Conduct regular benefits audits, identify root causes of discrepancies, implement corrective actions, and recommend process improvements.
• Leave Administration for HQ ensuring employees and managers receive clear guidance throughout the leave process.
• Manage Worker’s Compensation for HQ.
• Maintain required benefits documentation and employee-facing resources, including summary plan descriptions, required notices, and intranet content.
• Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, including ERISA, COBRA, ACA, HIPAA, FMLA, state leave laws, and retirement-plan requirements.
• Coordinate preparation of Form 5500 filings, nondiscrimination testing, and other required plan reporting in partnership with vendors and internal stakeholders.
• Analyze benefits data, trends, utilization, and employee feedback to inform recommendations that improve program effectiveness, cost management, and employee experience.
• Support broader compensation and benefits initiatives as needed.

We’re Looking for You to Bring:

• Competencies:
  • Operational Rigor & Detail Orientation: Builds and maintains reliable benefits processes; identifies discrepancies; and ensures accurate, timely follow-through across eligibility, payroll deductions, vendor files, audits, reconciliations, and required documentation. Maintains a high bar for accuracy in work that directly affects employees.
  • Analytical Problem Solving & Judgment: Uses data, audits, and root-cause analysis to identify issues, assess risk, resolve complex cases, and make sound recommendations. Balances employee experience, compliance, operational feasibility, and cost considerations.
• Qualifications:
  • 5+ years of multi state benefits experience including Health and Welfare benefits administration, and 401k administration.  Experience with variable hour workforce is a plus.
  • 3+ years experience with leave administration and worker’s compensation administration.
  • Experience managing open enrollment, benefits audits, vendor relationships, employee communications, and employee inquiries.
  • Strong knowledge of federal, state, and multi-state employment and benefits regulations.
  • Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills, including pivot tables, lookups, data analysis, and reconciliation work.
  • Experience with HRIS and benefits administration systems; Dayforce experience is a plus.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex benefits information clearly and empathetically.
  • Strong customer-service orientation and the ability to build trusted relationships with employees, leaders, vendors, and cross-functional partners.
  • Ability to interpret policies, assess complex situations, and make thoughtful recommendations using sound judgment.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, and thrive in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
  • A collaborative, inclusive approach and comfort working with a culturally diverse workforce.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Leadership Principles: Honor’s Leadership Principles are the foundation of translating our mission into action. These principles define how we show up and make decisions, and how we hire, develop and grow talent. While Honor has 13 leadership principles, the following  are particularly relevant to this role:
  • Relentlessly Focus on Clients: Leaders always start with the client and work backwards. They are maniacally focused on creating solutions that lead to better care for our clients.
  • Build Trust: Leaders are forthright and ethical. Leaders seek the truth and the best path forward, communicating openly, honestly, and respectfully. They willingly give and receive feedback. They do what they say they will do, when they say they will do it.
  • Identify Problems: Leaders have a keen sense that an identifiable problem is present. They identify it, determine the root cause and propose a solution. Leaders ensure solutions are implemented and partner as necessary.
  • Think Systemically: Leaders consider the full range of implications of their ideas and actions before making decisions. They anticipate downstream impacts, prioritize what is best for the broader business beyond their own team, and do not sacrifice long-term success for short-term results.

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